Board adopts revised timeline for relocation and construction of School 19

At the May 2 meeting of the Board of Education, the board unanimously approved a timeline for when School 19 will be relocated to swing space and when renovations will begin at the school. The resolution stated that School 19 will be vacated after June 2007, construction will begin in July 2007, and it is anticipated that the newly renovated school will be occupied in January 2009. (Previously, the plan called for the school to be vacated after December 2006, and ready for occupancy in September 2008. However, that plan also called for School 19 and William S. Hackett Middle School to share the Philip Schuyler Elementary School building while they were both under renovations, a situation that would have presented space constraints. The revised plan for School 19 that the the board adopted on May 2 will allow time for a suitable alternative swing space to be developed). More details will be provided as they become available.